Moscow Textile Institute

one of the first Soviet technical institutions of higher learning, the major pedagogical and scientific research center in the field of textiles. The institute was founded in 1919. Major roles in its organization and development were played by the scientists A. N. Kremenetskii, N. Ia. Kanarskii, V. V. Linde, V. E. Zotikov, N. T. Pavlov, N. G. Novikov, A. P. Malyshev, V. M. Rodionov, P. P. Lazarev, and M. M. Shemiakin.

As of 1973 the Moscow Textile Institute had departments of mechanical engineering, textile machine building, chemical engineering, power engineering, industrial economics, and applied arts. There is an evening division and departments for the continuing education of engineers, technical workers, and instructors at institutions of higher learning and technicums. The institute has a preparatory division, a graduate program, 41 subdepartments, and more than 80 laboratories (special problem, sectorial, and computer). The library has more than 400, 000 volumes.

In the 1972–73 academic year, the Moscow Textile Institute had an enrollment of 5, 500 students and a faculty of approximately 500 instructors, including 45 professors and doctors of sciences and 250 docents and candidates of sciences. The institute is accredited to confer doctoral and candidate’s degrees. Since 1927 it has published Sbornik nauchno-issledovatel’skikh trudov. (Collection of Scientific Research Works). The institute has trained more than 22, 000 specialists. It was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in 1971.